Writing Quotes · Page 445

“If writers stopped writing about what happened to them, then there would be a lot of empty pages.”

— Elaine Liner

When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.

— Sally Phillips

A good book is a good book, and there are a lot of different ways to approach writing or reading one.

— Emily Barton

As a writer, you explore all kinds of different emotions.

— Ishmael Reed

Every writer needs an editor. I don't care how good you are or think you are.

— Nora Roberts

Don’t ever trust anyone who’s writing a book. They make up lies for a living.

— Rosemary Clement-Moore

Poetry is sentimental to begin with. To write a sentimental poem is an act of redundancy.

— Mary Ruefle

I wasn't trained as a writer-director. And the projects I write are difficult to finish.

— Ziad Doueiri

A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Globes are voted for by anyone in L.A. who's ever written for a foreign newspaper or magazine. That means, like, Romanian…

— John Hillcoat

I just started to write because I was fed up of not seeing the stories that I wanted, so I was like…

— Noel Clarke

As a writer one is allowed to have conversations with oneself. What is considered sane in writers is made for the rest…

— Alan Ayckbourn

Ours is a precarious language, as every writer knows, in which the merest shadow line often separates affirmation from negation, sense from…

— James Thurber

Creative writing programmes are not very necessary. They just exist so that people like us can make a living.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I've always written by hand. Mostly with a fountain pen, but sometimes with a pencil - especially for corrections.

— Paul Auster

He who has knowledge of the just and the good and beautiful ... will not, when in earnest, write them in ink.

— Plato

I know people who've passed every creative writing course under the sun and who are more analytically intelligent and far better-read than…

— Suhayl Saadi

Hope, to me, is wishing for something good to be true. I believe it is inherent in all of mankind to hope,…

— Reese Roper

How rare it is to come across a piece of writing that is unambiguous, unqualified, and also unblurred by understatements or subtleties,…

— Eric Hoffer

Writing books and being paid for it - it's not like winning the Lottery. You can't suddenly go, 'Yippee!' and start throwing…

— Joanne Harris

No, my favorite scene was Brienne finding Arya and The Hound. I thought that the writing and the dialogue and the confusion…

— Alex Graves

“A novel is something that stands at the end of a lengthy process called writing. It is not a preexisting Platonic form…

— Victoria Nelson

I became an actress because my mom wanted me to become an actress. It took me until my mid-30s to realize I…

— Angelina Jolie

Writing is like hunting. There are brutally cold afternoons with nothing in sight, only the wind and your breaking heart. Then the…

— Kate Braverman

No Barstool writer has ever said or written one thing out of hate or anger. It's always to get a joke.

— Dave Portnoy

Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.

— Flannery O'Connor

Much of the activity we think of as writing is, actually, getting ready to write.

— Gail Godwin

I feel like if writers used writing as therapy we'd have a ton of happy writers.

— Jennifer Gilmore

If you write memoir, it can't be about blame or hurt; it has to be creative.

— Dani Shapiro

You have to be very brave in that first writing session.

— Barry Mann

Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic.

— John le Carre

To be the kind of writer you want to be, you must first be the kind of thinker you want to be.

— Ayn Rand

My sorrow is I used to read all the time and now, as a writer, I don't have the time to read.

— Alice Hoffman

“I let myself play in an unbounded world of creations on the glorious written page whenever I desire.”

— Amy Leigh Mercree

“Make dance the mission every moment seeks to accomplish.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.

— Brian Eno

Write relentlessly, until you find your voice. Then, use it.

— David Sedaris

Acting is really about showing up that day and telling the writers what you feel like saying.

— Tina Fey

Writing about corporate America had sapped my energy, disappointed the editors, and unnerved me.

— Seymour Hersh

When you write an autobiography, it has to be authentic.

— Zeenat Aman